Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| ANARE Nunataks (AUS) | 69° 58' 00.1" S | 64° 34' 00.1" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1829
Place ID: 329
A group of ridges about 266 km SSE of Mawson, in Mac.Robertson Land. They are mainly snow and ice covered, with exposed brown rocks forming the summits. Heights range from 2,006 m to 2,036 m above sea level. First visited by an ANARE party led by J.M. Béchervaise on 30 November, 1955. The name is the initials of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions |
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| Brennan Inlet (USA) | 74° 28' 00.0" S | 116° 35' 00.0" W | Inlet |
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Name ID: 122915
Place ID: 1829
An ice-filled inlet in the SE part of Getz Ice Shelf, bounded to the W by Scott Peninsula and Nunn Island and to the E by Spaulding Peninsula, on the Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Named by US-ACAN after Lt. Cdr. Lawrence A. Brennan, USNR, who helped plan and execute the recovery of three damaged LC-130 aircraft from Dome Charlie (q.v.) in East Antarctica, successfully accomplished in the 1975-76 and 1976-77 seasons. |
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